Churchill Choken

Update:: A Federal High Court, sitting in Jalingo Taraba State, has discharged and acquitted Sani Abubakar Danladi, former acting Governor and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State, of alleged fraud. Also acquitted are Joel Ikenya, a former Minister of Labour and Productivity, and Mark Bako Useni, former Speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly. The court also gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) a 72-hour ultimatum to refund the sum of N228million to the defendants. The EFCC had filed the case against the trio on alleged fraud involving N450million. Justice Stephen Pam ruled that the case by the EFCC lacked merit and ordered the anti-graft agency to refund N228million, which was earlier remitted to the commission by the defendants. The judge maintained that the EFCC could not substantiate its evidence against the defendants, and urged the commission to desist from infringing on the rights of innocent citizens...

Update:: The National Christian Elders Forum have described the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen and appointment of Justice Tanko Muhammad as acting CJN, as an Islamic agenda and have called on all Nigerians to resist the Islamists in the country. In a statement  titled, “CJN Onnoghen: What is really at stake and the way out.” and released yesterday, the elders which include Lt.Gen. Theophilus  Danjuma,  Solomon Asemota (SAN),  Prof. Joseph Otubu, Gen. Joshua Dogonyaro (retd.), Dr  Kate Okpareke, Dr Ayo Abifarin, Gen. Zamani Lekwot (retd.), Elder Moses Ihonde, Elder Nat Okoro and Elder Matthew Owojaiye, alleged that Nigerians unwittingly elected an Islamist organization in 2015 and must do everything to ensure they do not return to power in 2019. Read part of their statement below “In 2015, Nigerians unwittingly elected an Islamist government into office, supposedly on a platform of democracy. It...